This also works and IMHO reads better:
d="5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
f,t=d.split(' to '))
Larry Bates
Bell, Kevin wrote:
> The following works in the interactive window of PythonWin, but fails in
> a script. TypeError: Objects of type 'slice' can not be converted to a
> COM VARIANT
>
> I just need to parse out these dates, but it's making me crazy.
> Shouldn't it work in both the interactive window and a script?
>
>
>
>>>>d = "5-18-05 to 5-31-05"
>>>>print d[0:d.find("to")-1]
>
> 5-18-05
>
>>>>print d[d.find("to")+3:]
>
> 5-31-05
>
>
>
>
>
> Kev
>
>
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